The Board of School Education Haryana (BSEH) declared the Class 10 board examinations results on Friday.

A total of 3.64 lakh candidates had appeared out of which 57.39% passed in the Haryana Board Class 10 examination. The pass percentage has gone up by six points compared to last year’s 51.15%. However, the poor show continued as 1.4 lakh students failed the exams, while another 18,000 got compartments.

Girl have once again outperformed boys by nine percentage points. Compared to 62.17% girls, only 53.43% boys have passed.

Four students have jointly secured the first position in the Class 10 exams by securing 497 marks each out of 500. Himanshu of Jhajjar, Sanju of Panipat, Isha of Kaithal and Shalini of Jind were declared joint toppers. The second position was also shared by four students who got 496 marks out of 500, while eight students shared the third spot by securing 495 marks each.

BSEH chairman Jagbir Singh said on Friday that they were declaring the results in record 42 days this year. The board has also scrapped the moderation policy and thus students’ results will reflect their own hardwork rather than grace marks given by the board, Singh said.

In 2018, 51.15% students passed the Haryana board 10th exam. Girls performed better than boys with a pass percentage of 55.34%, while for boys the pass percentage was 47.61%. Kartik of Nav Durga School, Jind, topped Class 10 exams with 99.6%. Celina Yadav, Saloni and Hari Om jointly secured the 2nd position with 99%.